Sebastiano CATTARUZZO
- Position
- Researcher
- Telephone
- 041 234 9218
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seba.cattaruzzo@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Applied Economics [ECON-04/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/seba.cattaruzzo (personal record)
- Office
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Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe
Office hours
I kindly ask to send an email (seba.cattaruzzo@unive.it) to arrange an appointment. Office hours are available in two forms:
- Presentially, at Office D104 - first floor - Plesso D ("Villette"), San Giobbe - Cannaregio 873, on Thursday starting at 5:30 PM. If the time clashes with other duties, we will try to find a solution together
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Publication highlights
Cattaruzzo, Sebastiano; Méndez-Ortega, Carles; Torrent-Sellens, Joan Robots, Firms, and Regions: Explaining Spanish Manufacturing Firms’ Productivity and Exports in JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, vol. n/d (ISSN 1868-7873)
DOI 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5115502
Sebastiano Cattaruzzo; Giancarlo Corò; Roshan Borsato Technological complexity and global capabilities in SMEs. A survey in an Italian industrial region in INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION, vol. n/d (ISSN 1469-8390)
2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5113008
Cattaruzzo, Sebastiano; Miravet, Daniel; Gutiérrez, Aaron Tourist mobility and public transport use on excursions in ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS, vol. 7 (ISSN 2666-9579)
DOI 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5113009
Sebastiano Cattaruzzo; Giancarlo Cor?; Giovanni Maran When Specialization Leads to Knowledge Expansion: Linking Industrial Districts to Economic Complexity across Italian Regions in SR SCIENZE REGIONALI, vol. n/d (ISSN 1720-3929)
DOI 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5113007
Rubini, Lauretta; Pollio, Chiara; Barbieri, Elisa; Cattaruzzo, Sebastiano Changing structures in transnational research networks: An analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on China's scientific collaborations in STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS, vol. 69-297 (ISSN 0954-349X)
DOI 2024,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5046341
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8857-8314
WORK EXPERIENCE
| 2023 – now | Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Economics, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia |
| 2022 – 2023 | Research grant holder, Department of Economics, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia |
| 2017 – 2022 | Researcher, GRIT and ECO-SOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus |
| 2017 | Intern as Data Analyst for the Strategic Planning Department (APPS), Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia |
| 2013 | Summer Intern, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Atlanta |
EDUCATION
| October 2017 - January 2021 | Doctor of Philosophy in Economics Summa cum laude with international mention Thesis title: “Exploring European firms’ heterogeneity: perspectives on finance, export and R&D” Supervised by Agustí Segarra Blasco and Mercedes Teruel Committee: Alex Coad, Rosina Moreno, and Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain |
| September 2014 - December 2016 | Master of Science in Economics Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy |
| September 2010 - July 2014 | Bachelor of Science in Economics Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA and Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy |
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
| 2022 – 2023 |
Lecturer for "Economic and Industrial Policy" - Master course at Università Ca' Foscari Teaching Assistant for “Economics of innovation, growth theory and economic development” – Bachelor course at Università Ca’ Foscari (in collaboration with HFARM) Teaching Assistant Senior for “Economic and industrial policy” – Master course at Università Ca’ Foscari |
| 2019 – 2020 | Lecturer for Tourism Markets – BSc course at Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
VISITING EXPERIENCES
April 2019 - July 2019 Visiting Scholar, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
January 2018 - February 2018 Visiting Scholar, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italia
PUBLISHED RESEARCH
Journal article(s)
Cattaruzzo, S., Segarra-Blasco, A., and Teruel, M. (2022). Firm-level contributions to the R&D intensity distribution: evidence and policy implications. Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, forthcoming.
Cattaruzzo, S., & Teruel, M. (2022). On the heterogeneity of the long-term leverage-growth relationship: A cross-country analysis of manufacturing firms. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, forthcoming.
Segarra-Blasco, A., Teruel, M., and Cattaruzzo S. (2021). The economic reaction to non-pharmaceutical interventions during Covid-19. Economic Analysis and Policy, 72: 592-608.
Segarra-Blasco, A., Teruel, M., and Cattaruzzo S. (2020). Innovation, productivity and learning induced by export across European manufacturing firms. Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, 31(5): 387-415.
Working paper
Cattaruzzo, S. (2020). On R&D sectoral intensities and convergence clubs (No. 2020-01). Joint Research Centre (Seville site) Working Paper series.
Book chapter
Doremus, N., Moneta, A. and Cattaruzzo, S. (2019). Cause-Effect Pairs in Time Series with a Focus on Econometrics (pp. 191-214), in I. Guyon, A. Statnikov, B. Batu (eds.) Cause Effect Pairs in Machine Learning, Springer.
REFEREE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Referee for: Research Policy, Scientometrics, Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, Cuadernos de Economía (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Competition & Change, L'Industria.
Member of: National Centre for Applied Economic Studies (CiMET), Società Italiana di Econometria (SIDE), European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).
Former PhD delegate in the Steering Committee of the Centre de Recerca en Economia i Sostenibilitat (ECO-SOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
GRANTS AND AWARDS
October 2017 - January 2021 Martí-Franquès COFUND Fellowship Programme - Funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 713679
May 2015 Attendance to Festival dell’Economia di Trento - Funded by Institute for New Economic Thinking
August 2012 - January 2014 EU-USA Atlantis Programme scholarship
Attendance of 12 months at Georgia State University and of 6 months at Universitè de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
June 2022: Workshop on “The future of production: digitalization, global value chains, green transition” at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
June 2021: Workshop on "Capabilities, structural change and innovation" at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
July 2021: Young Scholars Parallel Session on Evolutionary Economics perspectives at the International Schumpeterian Society (ISS) conference, Rome
2015 – 2016: Series of seminars "Critical European Thinking" at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Industrial and firm dynamics, economics of innovation, industrial policy, causal inference in economics, agricultural economics, philosophy and methodology of economics, evolutionary economics, international trade, tourism markets and sustainable tourism.
PRESENTAZIONI A CONFERENZE
| 2022 | Workshop “PEACE – Erasmus è partecipazione”, Torino, Italy |
| 16th Regional Innovation Policies Conference, Padova, Italy | |
| 12th Annual Conference in Political Economy, Bologna, Italy | |
| Workshop “Internationalization strategies for higher education”, Venice, Italy | |
| 2021 | 2nd ECO-SOS Workshop on Economics and Sustainability, Reus, Spain |
| Eu-SPRI 2021 – “Science and Innovation – an uneasy relationship?” Oslo, Norway | |
| XXIII Encuentro de Economía Aplicada, Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |
| 9th Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics, Reus, Spain | |
| 2020 | 26th SPRU PhD Forum, Brighton, UK |
| 8th Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics, Reus, Spain | |
| DRUID PhD Academy, Odense, Denmark | |
| 2019 | XXII Encuentro de Economía Aplicada, Cartagena, Spain |
| European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics, Brighton, UK | |
| III Workshop on Innovation and Firm Performance, Reus, Spain | |
| 7th Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics, Reus, Spain | |
| 2018 | KID 2018 - Summer School on Knowledge, Industry Evolution, Economic Development, Nizza, France |
| DRUID Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark |
ULTERIORI ATTIVITÀ DI FORMAZIONE
| 2020 | 1st ECO-SOS Workshop on Economics and Sustainability, Reus, Spain |
| DRUID PhD Academy, Odense, Denmark | |
| 2019 | Workshop on Innovation, Firm Dynamics, Employment and Growth, Greenwich, UK |
| 25th SPRU PhD Forum, Brighton, UK | |
| Attendance to the SPRU Friday Seminar Series, Brighton, UK | |
| 2018 | 30th European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Conference, Nice, France |
| Course on “Advanced Bayesian Econometrics” organized by SIDE, Perugia, Italy | |
| KID 2018 - Summer School on Knowledge, Industry Evolution, Economic Development, Nizza, France | |
| Ingenio PhD Days - Science, Technology and Innovation: new challenges and practices, Valencia, Spain | |
| 6th Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics, Reus, Spain | |
| 2017 | Course “How to Write a Competitive Proposal for H2020 Proposals”, Tarragona, Spain |
| II Workshop on Innovation and Firm Performance, Reus, Spain | |
| Weekly attendance to the URV Economics Department seminar series at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain | |
| Typo3 training, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy | |
| Accreditiamoci (ANVUR), Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy | |
| 2016 | Workshop on “The Intellectual Legacy of Christopher Freeman”, Pisa, Italy |
| PhD Workshop on “Keynes and Monetary Policy” di Sir Robert Skidelsky, Pisa, Italy | |
| Monthly attendance to the LEM Seminar Series at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy | |
| Seminars on “Critical European Thinking”, Pisa, Italy | |
| 2015 | Festival dell’Economia, Trento, Italy |
| INET-YSI Workshop on “Income Distribution” by J. Stiglitz, Trento, Italy | |
| Seminars on “Critical Economics in Times of Crisis”, Pisa, Italy | |
| Workshop on “Das Kapital” del Prof. G. Gattei, Pisa, Italy | |
| 2014 | Conference “Debunking Austerity: Towards Alternative Economic Policy Scenarios”, Pisa, Italy |
IT SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, macOS
Coding: HTML, Java, C, Pascal, mySql
Research: MATLAB, Stata, Gretl, R, Endnote, Zotero, Cabri, Derive, SAS
Web-development: Wordpress, Joomla, Typo3
Other: Office Suite, OpenOffice Suite, LATEX, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
COMPETENZE LINGUISTICHE
Italian: Mother tongue
English: Excellent
French: Proficient in speaking and reading, competent in writing
Spanish: Proficient in speaking and reading, competent in writing
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